Furniture glider



ct. l0, 1933. Dl H CHASQN 1,930,223

FURNITURE GLIDER Filed June 8. 1932 gmt/MM Daniel f1. Chason Patented Oct. 10, 1933 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE FURNITURE GLIDER Application June 8, 1932. Serial No. 616,041

Claims.

This invention relates to furniture gliders and has for its Object to provide a glider which may be secured to a sheet-metal article of furniture after the furniture has been assembled and 5 painted, and to provide a furniture glider which may be manufactured and assembled at little expense.

With the above and other objects in view, as will hereinafter appear, the invention comprises the devices, combinations and arrangements of parts hereinafter set forth and illustrated in the accompanying drawing of a preferred embodiment of the invention, from which the several features of the invention and the advantages attained thereby will be readily understood by those skilled in the art.

In the accompanying drawing:`

Figures 1 is a side elevation showing a preferred embodiment of my improved glider xed to the foot of a sewing machine treadle-stand.

Figure 2 is a front elevation.

Figure 3 is a section taken substantially along the line 3 3 of Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a disassembled perspective view. In the embodiment of this invention selected for illustration 1 is a down-turned foot of a sewing machine treadle-stand, to which is rigidly secured by spot Welding or any suitable means the member 2 having upstanding walls 2. Spot- Welded to the bottom plate of the member 2 is a at supporting plate 3 formed with the shouldered projections 4 and 5 and an aperture 6 formed with an upstanding wall 7 which extends into the aperture 8 in the trough-shaped member The methods of painting sheet-metal furniture are usually by spraying or dipping. When the shoe of a glider is painted it does not slide easily land mars the surface over which it slides. It is therefore desirable to fix the shoe of the glider to the furniture after the latter has been painted. To this end I have provided a trough-shaped shoe 9 apertured at 10 to receive the slightly tapered stud-pin 11. The upstanding Wall 9 of the shoe 9 engages the shoulders 4 and 5' of the projections 4 and 5 to prevent relative movement between the shoe 9 and the supporting-plate 3. The diameter of the aperture 6 in the plate 3 is slightly smaller than the diameter of the tapered stud 11 to provide a driving t for the stud 11.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the shoe 9 may be secured to the leg of the treadle-stand with the minimum of effort and expense after the stand has been assembled and painted.

Having thus set forth the nature of the invention, what I claim herein is:-

1. A furniture glider comprising a supporting plate formed with shouldered projections and a centrally located aperture, a trough-shaped shoe formed With a stud-receiving aperture and having its upstanding Wall engaging said shoulders and overlying said projections, and a headed stud extending through the aperture in said shoe and entering the aperture in said supporting plate.

2. A furniture glider comprising a member having an aperture, a supporting plate having depending projections and an aperture surrounded with an upstanding Wall which extends into the aperture in said member, a shoe having upstanding Walls engaging the projections on said plate, and means for securing said shoe to said plate.

3. A furniture glider comprising a member having an aperture, a supporting plate having shouldered projections and an aperture surrounded with an upstanding Wall entering the aperture in said member, a trough-shaped shoe formed with a stud-receiving aperture and having its upstanding Wall in engagement with the shoulders of said projections, and a headed stud extending through the aperture in said shoe and having a driving fit with the aperture in said plate.

4. In combination, a hollow metal leg, a member having upstanding Walls entering and secured to said leg, a supporting plate having shoe positioning shoulders closing the lower end of said leg and secured to said member, and a glider shoe secured to said supporting plate.

5. In combination, a hollow sheet-metal leg, a member having upstanding Walls entering and secured to said leg and formed with an opening, a supporting plate having a projection which enters the opening in said member, depending shoe positioning and holding elements carried by said supporting plate, and a glider shoe engaging and embracing said positioning and holding elements.

DANIEL H. CHASON. 

